Thanks Chris... here is what I dreamt up about the subject:

a. There were seven Bhutanese exclaves.
b. Their names were:
- Taharen (also: Darchen / Tarchen and [to the Chinese: Daerjing)
- Tsehher
- Diraphu
- Dzung Tuphu
- Jangeke
- Chahip
- Cooha

c. Darchen was the administrative capital of the region, located
at 80'20" E and 30'55" N, about 100 yeards from the foothills of Mt.
Kailash. Kailash is about 100 miles directly north of the
northwesternmost tip of Nepal - a good 300 to 400 miles from Bhutan,
regardless of whether you are a walking or flying crow. According to
literature, Darchen under the Bhutanese consisted of a temple, a "poor
restaurant" and a teahouse.
d. To the Bhutanese, theses possessions were collectively known as
"Northern Kangri".
e. In 1949, Bhutan's entered into the treaty with India about
which you read in a couple of messages earlier, under which it agreed
to be "guided" by India (not subservient to India) with respect to its
foreign relations. The treaty replaced the earlier one that it had
with the UK, which had quit India. Under the treaty, the Bhutanese
sought out Indian assistance in getting a complaint lodged with China
about the Chinese interfering with the Bhutanese government's
official courier to the area, and for preventing the courier from
seeking protection of the Indians at the Indian Trade Agency offices
in Tibet.
On 19 August 1959, India issued a letter of protest to China about
this matter on Bhutan's behalf.
f. Shortly after the complaint was filed, Chinese soldiers
occupied the exclaves. Another complaint letter was requested and was
issued, but to no avail.
g. Shortly after that, Bhutan closed its border with Tibet (it is
still closed to this day). It withdrew the Lamas from the embassy
(called a "trade mission" by British envoy Williamson in his map of
Lhasa) and the exclaves and essentially abandoned them. (I've heard
that the former governor from the exclaves is alive today and living
in Bhutan).
h. Bhutan also possesses a Stupa near Kathhmandu. It may be only
extraterritorial - I've not been able to ascertain that.
i. Bhutan also possesses or possessed two plots of land in
Kalimpong, India, which were left to it when the rest of what was
known under British rule as "British Bhutan" - an area SW of Bhutan
and S of Sikkim, which Britain annexed in the 1860s in retribution for
Bhutanese acts that caused the Duar War. A Bhutanese post office
operated there in the early to mid 1960s. On these plots there are
what are known as the Old and New Bhutan Houses. They were owned by
the royal family, which I hear placed one or both of them up for sale
sometime in the last couple of years. I do not know if they have been
sold or whether the sale means Bhutan had effectively abandoned these
plots, too. A measure of the sovereignty Bhutan exercized over these
plots can be traced from the aftermath of a murder committed on one of
the plots. The alleged murderer was not subject to Indian
jurisprudence... the Bhutanese caretaker who served the royals in the
late 20th centure wrote me in early 1992 that the Bhutanese officials
spirited the fellow across Indian territory to Bhutan proper to face
justice in Bhutan.
j. RE: Dewangiri. It's not a "strip of land", but more like a
square that jutted into the Bhutanese foothills when it was Indian.
It is the site of a Bhutanese fort from which the Bhutanese caused the
British a bitter humiliation in the Duar War. The area is now the
territory that surrounds the Bhutanese town of Deothang to its south -
in days past the town name was spelled "Dewathang". You can see the
relationship in the names. The Indian constitution prohibits the
government of India from giving away national territory. The fact
that Dewangiri was returned indicates that it was never considered
part and parcel of India - perhaps only "occupied" despite having been
"annexed".

Dream on Mr. A.

LN